Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.

Mayo, William James

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Jung, Carl

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

Nadine Stair

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Daly, Chuck

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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

19.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.

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The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

Croesus

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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Waitley, Denis

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

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It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Marden, Orison Swett

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Link, Henry C.

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -- after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Maltz, Maxwell

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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot